Why is JWT not safe?

JWT’s are often not encrypted so anyone able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack and sniff the JWT now has your authentication credentials. This is made easier because the MITM attack only needs to be completed on the connection between the server and the client.

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Why should we use JSON Web Tokens?

Information Exchange: JWTs are a good way of securely transmitting information between parties because they can be signed, which means you can be sure that the senders are who they say they are . Additionally, the structure of a JWT allows you to verify that the content hasn’t been tampered with.

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Can we decode JWT token?

Because JWTs are just URL safe strings, they’re easy to pass around via URL parameters, etc. They contain JSON-encoded data. This means you can have your JWT store as much JSON data as you want, and you can decode your token string into a JSON object .

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